State
ONE LAKE
Northside Sun
A legal battle could be brewing over the One Lake Project, and whether an environmental advocacy group is spreading false information about the project.
Three litter crews work together to keep county clean
Picayune Item
Each year the Pearl River County Board of Supervisors sets aside $200,000 for countywide trash pick up.
‘Park Day’ scheduled for VNMP
Vicksburg Post
Volunteers are expected to descend on the Vicksburg National Military Park April 7 to participate in a nationwide cleanup day sponsored by the Civil War Trust.
CITY TO ADDRESS MASTER PLAN FOR ONE-PERCENT TAX MONEY USE
Northside Sun
Four years after a special one-percent tax was put in place, the city of Jackson could soon have a long-range master plan to map out how the tax will be spent.
City seeks funding for improvements to water system
Natchez Democrat
NATCHEZ — Natchez is seeking $2.5 million to make improvements to the city’s water system.
Mississippi sends firefighters to Oklahoma
WTOK
The Mississippi Forestry Commission is deploying a bulldozer strike team and two division supervisors to Oklahoma to help with wildfire suppression efforts. The 8 firefighters will arrive Friday morning in Shawnee, Okla.
Oil Spill
Mobile port director describes RESTORE process, impact of new docks project
Al.com
At the start of the month, the Port of Mobile had no money lined up for a new auto-handling facility that could have an economic impact throughout the state and beyond. Two weeks later, thanks to two separate federal grants, it has more than $40 million.
Regional
States: US government to rewrite 2 endangered species rules
AP
The Trump administration will rewrite rules governing how to choose areas considered critical to endangered species to settle a lawsuit brought by 20 states and four trade groups, according to state attorneys general.
Bug killing Louisiana's wetlands crosses the border into Texas
Times-Picayune
The foreign insect eating away wetlands in south Louisiana appears to have crossed the border into Texas.
National
Environmental regulators are trying to turn a former lead mining site back into a forest
KWMU
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources are restoring a portion of Missouri's Old Lead Belt back into a forest.
EPA orders Sunnyside to begin costly groundwater investigation for Gold King Mine Superfund cleanup
Denver Post
Perry defends proposed Energy Dept. cuts
The Hill
Energy Secretary Rick Perry sought to assure House lawmakers Thursday that his proposed cuts to various programs does not mean he thinks they're unimportant.
Press Releases
Spring Outlook: U.S. to see moderate flooding, warmer-than-normal temperatures
Drought to persist in south-central Plains and the Southwest
NOAA
NOAA issued its three-month U.S. Spring Outlook today, highlighting a moderate risk of flooding in the Ohio River Valley basin and lower Mississippi River where streamflows and soil moisture are well above normal after major flooding from recent heavy rainfall.
